Case Study: Dyson achieves scalable air quality monitoring with balena

Dyson powers air quality backpacks with balena for a full school week of battery life

Dyson, a leading technology company, faced the challenge of developing a low-power, connected air quality monitoring backpack for a school project. They needed a solution that would provide a full week of battery life and allow for remote development and real-time data transmission. They turned to the vendor balena and its balenaCloud platform and balenaOS to manage their fleet of devices.

Using balena's containerized approach and support for heterogeneous hardware, Dyson seamlessly switched to a more efficient single-board computer without re-architecting their application. The solution enabled remote SSH access and over-the-air updates, allowing the small team to develop and fix issues on the go. balena's tools sped up their provisioning process and enabled them to scale up massively for other projects, deploying and managing prototypes globally from their office.

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